St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-08
DOINGs OF WOMEN FoLK.
Nurses Arrayed Like Brides-Niiss
Mcclellan and Baroness Bur-
dette-COuttS.

Nurses Arrayed Like Brides-NIiss
dette-CouttS.
The latest thing in babies iS-not
mothers milk, as might be supposed
but that, when they are brought in the
drawing room to be shown to admiring
friends. their nurses should be arrayed
all i'll lily-white. like a graduate or a
bride. The Battenberg baby introduced
this latest wrinkle. A gown of
heavy white Irish poplin is worn by the
fortunate domestic who is allowed to
minister to his youthful and ROYAL
wants. This is made with plain full
skirt, tight waist. with mutton-leg
sleeves, large. white apron, deeply
laced, 4 wide collar and cuffs of
Irish lace and a crisp white cap
completes the costume. The new
and his nurse is arrayed in white
from top to toe. with the royal arms en-
br0idered on the corner of her Volumin-
Gus aprons. The administration baby
cannot afford to be out of style. and her
nurse is now busy being fitted TO lot of
new white apparel As Mrs. Cleveland
will not allow the Whitneys TO monopo-
lie the national arms for the apron of
Mile. DOrothy'S attendant, new model
OF lroncladS Is suggested as being fitting
and beautiful.
Miss McClelland, whose portrait is in
the article upon the Recent Movement
in Southern Literature" III the Harper
for this month, and who is the author of
several novels that have attracted con-
siderable misunderstanding OBJ
liNion, "A Self-Made Man and others,
j. visiting here in New York. This is
her first visit TO the metropolis: indeed
her first visit to any large city. Her
Wife has been passed on Virginia plan
tation in a lonely and mountainous dis
trIct. quite away from any schools. and
her whole education she has derived
from her mother and her own love of
books. In this place she has written
novels that the critics have, after the
usual manner, declared contained
touches George Eliot might have
been proud of. She is quite young
and affords much amusement to
her friends in her naive delight and in
tereSt in things that have been matters
of course to them all their lives. She
was very nervous at first at riding in
the elevated trains. and cannot yet cross
broadway OF Fifth avenue alone. Her
last novel was published in Lippincott's,
entire in one number, and dwelt upon
phase of Southern life that has never
before been touched. the relations of the
oNerSeer class to the planters and to the
slaves
A curious story comes from England.
through private source. that the
Baroness Burdette-CouttS has some
thing that no other woman in the world
pGSSeSSeS-three skins. All other women
have two; but what is the use of great
fortune if you can't afford yourself
The third skin is made of silk.
and is so exquisitely fine and
close-ftting that few people have
detected its presence. 1t is said to cover
her whole body from her ankles to her
chin, and they. for she has sets of them,
are woven specially for her. They are
tleSh-colored. of course. and hide all
wrinkles and ravageS of time with the
natural diScolOrati0nS OF the skin that
are the result of age, Where this
artificial skin ends at the throat
the Baroness wears a splendid collar
of Jewels or a velvet band, and she
ing dress. not even to eat her dinner. Mrs.
Cleveland follows the same fashion, but
obviously not for the same reasons. In
consequence of this curious repair of
the natural shrinkings and wrinllings
OF age, the baroness is able to wear her
gowns decoIlete. though since her mar
riage the queen has never summoned
her to one of her levees. where such
costume is imperative. Perhaps
she borrowed the idea from a
bleak and bony old Scotch duchess,
who. not being able to secure a certifi-
cate of ill-hcalth from the court physi-
clan which would enable her to wear a
high-throated gown. appeared at the
I.1X N Or-r Iny1,-nnclynI
dress. worn over her long-sleeved. high
necked merino undershirt. The vigor-
Gus old Scotch woman declared she'd
not show her ancient bones. not for the
whole royal family. And. It's said, the
PRINCE of WALES nnhald her